Genevieve LeBaron

Director

Genevieve LeBaron is Director of SPERI and Professor of Politics. She is an Editor of Review of International Political Economy.

She has been included in the 2018 UK Top 100 Corporate Modern Slavery Influencers and the 2017 global Top 100 Human Trafficking & Slavery Influence Leaders lists, alongside world leaders from the UK and US governments and industry leaders from companies like Apple and Ford. She is a UK ESRC Future Research Leader and has been awarded the Rising Star Engagement Award by the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Genevieve joined the University of Sheffield as Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in 2013. Prior to that, Genevieve was a SSHRC Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia.

She has been a visiting scholar at Yale University, the International Labour Organization in Geneva, the University of California, Berkeley, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Sciences Po Paris. In 2015-2016, she was Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, part of the MacMillan Center at Yale University.

Research Interests

Genevieve’s research focuses on the political economy of the global labour market, including current projects on the governance of transnational supply chains, the politics and effectiveness of corporate social responsibility, and the business models of forced labour.

Her research has attracted funding from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences; British Academy / UK Department for International Development (DFID); Ford Foundation; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, amongst other funders.

She currently holds grants from the UK ESRC, SSHRC, and DFID / British Academy to investigate forced labour in global supply chains.